About this course
The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office) lets you create, share, and collaborate all in one place with your favorite apps now including Copilot.
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In this module, you'll learn about Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 is a cloud-powered productivity platform. It brings together the best-in-class productivity apps from Office 365 with advanced device management
The evolution of Office 365 to Microsoft 365
Over 10 years ago Microsoft introduced Office 365, the software-as-a-service you might be familiar with and have used. Evolving from Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), Office 365 was designed to bring together its existing online products to an ever up-to-date cloud service. It combined the core productivity apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, etc., and the collaboration and communication services such as Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Skype for Business. Office 365 was a way to grow its Office-centric business and expand on communication and collaboration services. First aiming at corporate users, eventually updated versions of Office 365 subscriptions were released aiming at different size businesses, consumers, and students. These versions included new services such as OneDrive.
Over the last several years, Microsoft’s cloud productivity apps and services have grown well beyond what people traditionally think of as ‘Office’, which has led to Microsoft 365. Renaming Office 365 to Microsoft 365 reflects the extension of features and benefits beyond the core Office 365 apps and services. Microsoft 365 brings together the best-in-class productivity apps from Office 365 with advanced device management, intelligent security, and innovative online services.
